DJ Chris Evans
 

Any one know if he is a pilot? and if so, where he flies from?

I only ask because on his R2 show yesterday, when talking about choppers flying up the Thames, he mentioned they must have been flying "Special VFR" - which is not a phrase a non-aviating jock would tend to know....

Thanks for that v prompt answer. The power of PPrune!

And what a thoroughly nice chap he is as well, very down to earth.

I went to a party on the roof of a block of flats in Docklands about 25 years ago. They overlooked Tower Bridge and he lived in the top floor penthouse.

He let us use his private lift to get all the disco gear up to the roof. He had a Ferrari 328 and a mint Rover 2000 (spare tyre on boot) in the underground garage.

Sorry I just had to mention it, I don't get out much!

Noel Edmonds was also a big aviation fan and Helicopter pilot. Is he still flying or given up?

Pace

That's an interesting article about Chris learning to fly a helicopter - although the accompanying photo looks remarkably like a PA28 cockpit....

He did have a Robinson R-44 registered in his name, with a photo of him flying it on G-INFO.

If IRC Noel Edmonds gave up flying helicopters many years ago after a few people he new who were chopper pilots were killed in flying accidents.

Saw him
 

Spotted him at Fairoaks "Hanger Cafe" a few months ago. I presume he is well versed in some sort of flying....

There were some notable accidents to media people - notably like Mike Smith but Noel Edmunds was not reckoned to be in the same class of pilot as him; I think perhaps NE gave up because the helicopters themselves repelled him. He hadn't the reputation of being the nicest of people.

Noel Edmunds gave himself a very nasty scare in a 109 a few years ago and I understand he decided to desist from flying RW while he was still ahead.

And yet you press on Shy!:ok: Your lower back must be sore by now,AND YOU'RE PROBABLY A BIT DEAF TOO?

CG

He knows I jest (he did enough at my expense!).

Eh? Sorry, I couldn't hear over my creaking bones.

Believe me, it's only because I have no other option....
The looks have long gone :8 , so the Gigolo thing as a second career never happened :}

(And seeing as I could spell, I never made the grade as a schoolteacher :E ).

Never a truer word spoken :ok:

My speeling was so ShyT, they made me the Head. (Done all the "Call me Dick", jokes.)

CG

On surviving some of your landings, the principle holds good for pilots too!

Don't know what you mean...those aircraft were broken before I landed them! :p

Ol' Chris Evans would be lost in this banter-fest eh? (God knows I am.) But still rich. :( Git.

CG

On a serious note, I can't see how any relatively busy "celebrity" can stay current enough to fly anything more than a kite.

David Essex learnt to fly helis at Fairoaks.
Gary Numan learnt on fixed wing at Blackbushe and was a frequent visitor at Fairoaks in his Harvard in the mid 80s.

Back in my plane-spotting days at Squires Gate (Blackpool International nowadays), I used to see the comedian Jimmy Edwards in his Aiglet Trainer G-AMMS which, coincidentally, is for sale at the moment.